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A shocking case of fraud in the name of getting admission in MBBS has come to light with a homeopathy doctor in Gujarat. Five years ago, Suresh Patel, a resident of Mehsana, paid Rs 16.32 lakh to get MBBS admission in a university in UP and after paying the full amount, he got the degree and certificates within a month without attending any class. In the year 2019, when he came to know that the MBBS degree he got was fake, he approached the police for a complaint. But the FIR in this case was registered five years later on June 14, 2024.
According to a Times of India report, in July 2018, 41-year-old Suresh Patel was searching on the internet about higher education in the medical line. Then he came across a forum called All India Alternative Medical Council which was claiming to provide MBBS degree. With the details found on the website, he contacted a man named Dr Prem Kumar Rajput over the phone. Patel told TOI, “Rajput assured me that I will get an MBBS degree based on my class 12th marks. I was skeptical… but he assured me that everything will be legal.” Rajput also told Patel that he would have to do an internship, take exams and get the degree in five years. Patel decided to go ahead and paid Rs 50,000, after which he got an admission letter from Bundelkhand University in Jhansi.
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Patel said, “Rajput spoke to me around 25 times. He told me that three other people – Dr Sauket Khan, Dr Anand Kumar and Arun Kumar – would help me complete my MBBS course. On his instructions, I paid Rs 16.32 lakh between July 10, 2018 and February 23, 2019 and waited for my classes to begin.”
However, the classes never began. “In March 2019, I received a package by courier containing an MBBS mark sheet, a degree certificate, internship training certificate and a registration certificate in my name bearing the seal of the Medical Council of India (MCI),” he said. Patel approached the MCI and learnt that he had been cheated. The degree was fake. He filed a police complaint, which was later handed over to the Ahmedabad Crime Branch in 2019.
He said, 'In 2019, I went to Delhi with the Mehsana police team, where Dr Anand Kumar allegedly lived and ran the organization, but there was no one at his address. Later we went to a private bank branch in Delhi and gathered enough evidence that the accused had duped many other people as well.' After this, the investigation went cold. The accused were never traced. Meanwhile Patel gathered more evidence and filed a complaint at the Mehsana SP's office in December 2023.
